Peter Mulryan

I made my excuses and left.

So I went back to the car and then as he walked out, three or four guards just surrounded him.

Within a week of his arrest and detention, Cook would finally be on trial for abuse charges facing Siobhan, Anne and two other survivors in court.

Even though the women we're calling Mary and Claire were not allowed to testify against Cook, they still attended each day's court hearing.

When Cook's trial began on November the 18th, 2002, the press seized on a nickname his victims had given him years earlier.

Cookie Monster.

And now the breadth of his crimes were laid bare.

It took almost two hours to read each chart because they had to be read to him separately.

The reply was not guilty to each one of them.

By denying all the charges against him, Eamon Cook made it all the more gruelling for Anne and Siobhan.

In giving her evidence, Siobhan was confronting her trauma again.

The trial itself was an ordeal for all the victims.

Gerry Kelly remembers the power of all four victims' testimony on the stand.

Siobhan was the first to take the stand and I followed her.

They were very good, like, and they got across that sense of terror and fear that they had.

And then you had the picture of these little girls, seven and eight, you know, naked, being lifted up and sexually assaulted by Cook.

It was absolutely powerful.

I think everybody took deep breaths.

It was powerful, powerful.

And the jury had awful sympathy for them.